J’ai beau être un vieux fan de Marillion, comme toi d’ailleurs 😊 j’ai adoré ce nouvel album. Du début à la fin, excepté Reprogramm the Gene qui m’a laissé sur ma faim. Il en faut donc pour tous les goûts 🤗
Tu trouves que Marillion tourne en rond et que la musique ne surprend plus depuis Marbles et Brave ? As-tu bien écouté F.E.A.R ?? Un album immense.....
Oui je l'ai écouté bien sur et à de nombreuses reprises, comme tous les albums de Marillion, les lives compris. Il est vrai que FEAR est un peu différent, plus sur la forme que sur le fond. La musique n’innove pas vraiment et sur la forme on n'est pas si loin de Happiness. Un bel album que j'ai cependant du mal à écouter de bout en bout, sauf immergé au casque. Après les goûts et les couleurs.
@The Phenix Mosley fait effectivement du bon travail sur cet album même s’il n’a jamais été pour moi un grand batteur de prog. Mais ça c’est une question de goût je suppose.
Thanks a lot. My english is too bad to record a english version and I don't have time for subtitles but here's a Google traduction, just for you : I discovered Marillion at the release of Fugazi and it was love at first sight. It must be said that at the time my musical universe was limited to Genesis, Peter Gabriel, Steve Hackett, Harmonium and Kate Bush. I became a fan of the great Fish with Misplaced Childhood and desperate after he left the band. The replacement was difficult to live with until a certain concept album entitled Brave followed by magnificent records like Anoraknophobia or Marbles. But since the latter, I find that the band at Hogarth has been going in circles. If the texts have gained in power as in the magnificent 'Gaza', the music has fallen asleep on its laurels, forgetting to surprise us. So I wasn't expecting much from An Hour Before It's Dark. So I wasn't too disappointed. The last Marillion is pleasant to listen to. Several river titles, beautiful lyrics, some finds that they could have developed and its comfortable tones that we find on all their albums for a few years. Homey progressive rock, pleasant to hear, without risk of displeasing, but which will certainly not make it the album of the year and even less the peak of their career. In short, something for old fans who don't want to be disturbed in their habits. Except that I want to be jostled by the music, I want to be surprised, moved, I want to discover new horizons, I want discomfort, I want thrills. And An Hour Before It's Dark doesn't quite get there. The new age choirs of 'Be Hard On Yourself' made me dream for a few seconds like the first part of 'Care', which is by the way the most original quarter of an hour of the album. There is indeed an instrumental, an exercise that is too rare with Marillion, but hey, it's only a few small seconds of entropy on the disc. 'Be Hard On Yourself' therefore starts rather well with its pretty chorus but gets lost along the way. 'Reprogram The Gene' frankly does not have much interest musically speaking with a very compact first half and a second without much content. The too short instrumental 'Only A Kiss' leaves me on my hunger, giving way to the single 'Murder Machines' of an exemplary Marillionesque classicism. Luckily, 'Crow Nightingale', without being revolutionary, finally offers something a little more airy and different. But it's with 'Sierra Leone' that I'm finally starting to have fun, ten minutes of Marillion all in subtlety, emotions and skilfully measured twists. 'Care' concludes the album in a beautiful way, especially with its first part which clearly stands out. This is my favorite title along with the previous one. Marillion wouldn't have written FEAR, Sounds That Can't Be Made, Happiness is the Road and Marbles before An Hour Before It's Dark, I certainly would have cried genius.
@@ChroniquesEnImagesthank you so much. Now I know that I was right with my assumption. It not only seems to be a great and refreshingly different review - it is! Well done and I would love to see more in this style!
J’ai beau être un vieux fan de Marillion, comme toi d’ailleurs 😊 j’ai adoré ce nouvel album. Du début à la fin, excepté Reprogramm the Gene qui m’a laissé sur ma faim. Il en faut donc pour tous les goûts 🤗
C’est peut-être parce que je me suis un peu lassé de Marillion au fil des années. Je trouve qu’ils se répètent. Je continue quand même à les écouter.
Tu trouves que Marillion tourne en rond et que la musique ne surprend plus depuis Marbles et Brave ? As-tu bien écouté F.E.A.R ?? Un album immense.....
Oui je l'ai écouté bien sur et à de nombreuses reprises, comme tous les albums de Marillion, les lives compris. Il est vrai que FEAR est un peu différent, plus sur la forme que sur le fond. La musique n’innove pas vraiment et sur la forme on n'est pas si loin de Happiness. Un bel album que j'ai cependant du mal à écouter de bout en bout, sauf immergé au casque. Après les goûts et les couleurs.
@The Phenix Mosley fait effectivement du bon travail sur cet album même s’il n’a jamais été pour moi un grand batteur de prog. Mais ça c’est une question de goût je suppose.
Great work! Would love to listen to it in English or with English subtitles.
Thanks a lot. My english is too bad to record a english version and I don't have time for subtitles but here's a Google traduction, just for you :
I discovered Marillion at the release of Fugazi and it was love at first sight. It must be said that at the time my musical universe was limited to Genesis, Peter Gabriel, Steve Hackett, Harmonium and Kate Bush.
I became a fan of the great Fish with Misplaced Childhood and desperate after he left the band. The replacement was difficult to live with until a certain concept album entitled Brave followed by magnificent records like Anoraknophobia or Marbles.
But since the latter, I find that the band at Hogarth has been going in circles. If the texts have gained in power as in the magnificent 'Gaza', the music has fallen asleep on its laurels, forgetting to surprise us.
So I wasn't expecting much from An Hour Before It's Dark. So I wasn't too disappointed.
The last Marillion is pleasant to listen to. Several river titles, beautiful lyrics, some finds that they could have developed and its comfortable tones that we find on all their albums for a few years.
Homey progressive rock, pleasant to hear, without risk of displeasing, but which will certainly not make it the album of the year and even less the peak of their career. In short, something for old fans who don't want to be disturbed in their habits.
Except that I want to be jostled by the music, I want to be surprised, moved, I want to discover new horizons, I want discomfort, I want thrills. And An Hour Before It's Dark doesn't quite get there.
The new age choirs of 'Be Hard On Yourself' made me dream for a few seconds like the first part of 'Care', which is by the way the most original quarter of an hour of the album. There is indeed an instrumental, an exercise that is too rare with Marillion, but hey, it's only a few small seconds of entropy on the disc.
'Be Hard On Yourself' therefore starts rather well with its pretty chorus but gets lost along the way. 'Reprogram The Gene' frankly does not have much interest musically speaking with a very compact first half and a second without much content.
The too short instrumental 'Only A Kiss' leaves me on my hunger, giving way to the single 'Murder Machines' of an exemplary Marillionesque classicism.
Luckily, 'Crow Nightingale', without being revolutionary, finally offers something a little more airy and different. But it's with 'Sierra Leone' that I'm finally starting to have fun, ten minutes of Marillion all in subtlety, emotions and skilfully measured twists.
'Care' concludes the album in a beautiful way, especially with its first part which clearly stands out. This is my favorite title along with the previous one.
Marillion wouldn't have written FEAR, Sounds That Can't Be Made, Happiness is the Road and Marbles before An Hour Before It's Dark, I certainly would have cried genius.
@@ChroniquesEnImagesthank you so much. Now I know that I was right with my assumption. It not only seems to be a great and refreshingly different review - it is! Well done and I would love to see more in this style!
@@BeaujolaisDay thanks 🙏
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